neato
Dated approval exclamation
Neato is an enthusiastic way of saying neat, expressing approval or admiration with playful exaggeration.
The -o ending gives it a deliberately corny, retro quality: Neato, you got the last ticket!
Popular in mid-20th-century American slang, it now sounds either nostalgic or ironic.
Cry of amazement
- awesomeExtremely impressive or overwhelming
- amazingCausing great wonder
- fantasticRemarkably good or unreal
- terrificExceptionally good
wonderful · excellent · fabulous · brilliant · marvelous · stupendous · sensational · incredible
cool
Calm or fashionable
keen · spiffy · peachy · dandy · snazzy · rad · tubular · gnarly · wicked · boss
wow
Cry of amazement
- awesomeExtremely impressive or overwhelming
- amazingCausing great wonder
- fantasticRemarkably good or unreal
terrific · wonderful · excellent · fabulous · brilliant · marvelous · stupendous · sensational · incredible · superb
fifties
Decade or age range
campy · nostalgic · throwback · old-school · Americana · diner · wholesome · corny · square · golly
- retro slanggroovy, far out, the bee's knees, cool cat, hip
- old-fashionedantique, antiques, gramophone, phonograph, horse and buggy
- old-fashioned wordsforsooth, hark, betwixt, hither, prithee
- Old-timey exclamationsgolly, gee whiz, jeepers, gadzooks, fiddlesticks
- neat freakOne compulsively tidy
- neat and tidyClean and organized
- neat whiskey
- whiskey neatSpirit served undiluted
- neat as a pinExtremely tidy and organized
- neatly arranged
neat, neatly, neatness, neater, neatest, neaten, neatening, neatens